(this is me speculating, not supported by anything in show that I know of)
If you build a ship for long range exploration/patrol wouldn’t the ability to fabricate replacement ship/parts make sense? Just seems logical looking at the progression of ships in the BSG world.
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But if it was sailing into an infinite ocean with all that remained of humanity it would make a lot of sense to do so.
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Temporal Cold War
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I can suspend my disbelief on the tiniest of skyhooks. But they have to be there. At least a nod and a wink to them.
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Nah, the F-35 will never really make sense. 
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It would make sense to include onboard fighter ship factories if the Battlestars had been created to be wholly independent generational starships, but clearly they weren’t. I mean, the whole reason the Pegasus was spared in the initial Cylon cyberattack to begin with is that it had been taken offline for a shipwide overhaul.
And I liked that about the show; “all our equipment is breaking down because it’s being pushed beyond its design limits and we don’t have the resources or facilities to fix or replace it” was a recurring source of dramatic tension.
That said I’m willing to let it go for the sake of furthering the plot and explaining where all the replacement fighters were coming from.
We know the Pegasus was designed to be an ark for humanity because it ended up becoming one. It says so in my evolutionary psychology textbook.
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SO SAY WE ALL
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Well, as we saw in “Hero” the Colonies were already toying with the idea of pushing a new war out to the Cylons. If you are pushing a battle fleet past “the red line” it would make sense for your command vessel (think how much bigger the Pegasus was compared to the Galactica and had half the crew…what was all that space for?) to have production facilities aboard. Like I said, it makes logical sense and not just “we need more fighters for our space show”
I don’t want to drag this thread off-topic, so I’ll just say that Myst trivia is my life’s work, and you’re welcome to PM me
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I’ll be honest, I don’t want to know, but, in all truth, I couldn’t be happier for your nerdery. Or however i am supposed to say it that so it’s clear that I think that’s awesome. Glad someone is.
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DS9 needed more Vin.
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While the time travel mcguffin to that episode was one of the weakest ever produced by Trek, the episode was an amazing one (and still quite prevelant 20+ years later)
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so there’s a genetic algorithm at work here? A ship’s right to reproduce is determined by how many humans it can save from extinction?
If it’s simulated, it’s naive. If it’s real, it’s a bit immoral.
(I have not seen the show)
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The ship in Farscape birthed an offspring and it only had one human on board.
Come to think of it, I don’t remember if they ever explained how the ship got knocked up in the first place. That would make for an interesting episode. (A: “Hull breach! We’re being boarded!” B: “Uh, that’s… not a docking tube.”)
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I’ll come and join you on that hill, happily.
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Ahem, I believe the phrase was “Temporal Cold War.”
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Ooh, Fancy!
Fancy indeed. Between that, the decontamination gel, and the godawful theme song I was basically out on Enterprise at episode one.
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